Novel openings with weather

[Jemmy Bloocher]

My all-time favourite book opener.

What does Elmore Leonard know?

Well, okay, maybe it takes a writer of Pynchon's calibre to open with
weather successfully.

Now I'm thinking of it, I'm sure Cormac McCarthy has done it, at least
once. I must check...

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of the
> Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off
> Delaware, --- (...)."
>
> Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon
>
>
>  > ... Elmore Leonard, who was a very successful novelist, had said,
> "Never open a book with weather." This is also advice found in a lot of
> writing guides ... <
>
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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